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Showing posts with label French Empire Fashion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label French Empire Fashion. Show all posts

Monday, February 27, 2012

Friday, February 17, 2012

Costume Parisien 1807

Costume Parisien Fashion Plate

A couple from 1814. Gentleman looks like Cary Grant!
Costumes Parisien, 1814
A couple more fashion prints from Costumes Parisien, these with couples. Funny mixture of formal & informal.  That is, who would wear a straw hat and carry a parasol to a Ball?  But maybe that was the fashion then!

Wednesday, February 15, 2012


Costume Parisien Empire Fashion Plate
French Empire Fashion Plate
While looking thru my files for scans that might make a nice "Regency Valentine's Day Card" I found nested file-within-file a folder labeled "MISC Scans". Full of gorgeous scans, mostly of French fashion plates. So I am looking forward to hours of nit-picky photoshop fun.  Heh.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Regency Christmas- Snow Globe with Man

This one was fairly easy, as the ice-skating young French Hottie was already done (you can find it elsewhere on this blog).  I'm working on a lady skating, taking another Costume Parisien fashion print and altering it.  I've been working on an "Ice Sculpture" of an Ackermann's Beauty... family says it isn't "icy enough".  So I'm just mulling it over.

Monday, January 10, 2011

La Mode Feminine

Here are some scans from a book I have, published in the 1920's, of fashion plates from the eras starting in 1795-to 1820.  They used the pochoir (stencil) technique, rather than individually painting each print with water-colors as fashion magazines in the Georgian-Regency-Empire Era did.
La Mode Feminine, Empire/ Regency Fashion

La Mode Feminine Late Regency Early Victorian Fashion


La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion
The drawings are somewhat Art Deco-y; I think they highlight the similarity of Fashions of the time to the Regency time. Both were influenced by "Greco-Roman classicalism" mixed with Egyptian themes, the Empire/Regency got theirs from Napoleon (and then Admiral Nelson's) excursions to Egypt.  And in the 20's fashion -and Art- was somewhat influenced by the discovery of King Tut's tomb.
La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion
La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion
La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion


I'll be adding more in a bit.  The prints are in good condition, tho yellowed.
La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion


Here is the next La Mode Feminine, years 1820 to 1845.  Some plates are missing. It wouldn't be hard to loose one or two as they are loose, not bound.

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion, Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion, Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion, Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion, Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion, Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion, Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine  Empire/Regency Fashion, Early Victorian Fashion